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Meslier is in much worse form than Bazunu - that nearpost goal that handed Everton three points was ridiculous, and could well be a pivotal mistake in their season.

Though most fans would have a better plan at this point. Too many stats, analysts and laptops involved, surely we just need some common sense - Set-up to have some attacking threat, perhaps with some urgency. Put players in their best roles. Practice defending set pieces. Players give 100% and try to look like they care. Instill the idea that if we do go down, we will go down fighting. It's not rocket science.

She was, and clearly still is, absolutely clueless. Possibly the thickest cabinet minister in years - quite a feat in an incredibly competitive category. The members need to have a hard look at themselves and what they did, and I don't mean about the follow up to Sound of the Suburbs.

You two need to get a room.

The only polite way to gauge proper public opinion after the election would be another referendum which would be just another clown show, so I'm not sure that's a great idea. Also the national embarrassment of having to ask the EU if we could talk about a return would be too much humble pie for most people to stomach. I think we just have to accept that it was an act of self-harm, mainly supported by people who didn't grasp the detail of the consequences or understand the ramifications. Many of those people accept that now, but there is still a vocal minority who through stubbornness pretend they like the way the UK has become a laughing stock and is destined to become just a little island off Europe. Saints bottom of the Prem, UK bottom of the G20 - great times. At least we have the sunlit uplands of the Championship to look forward to, financially we'll be much better off there, taking back control of our own future without that nasty Sky money, it's a great move...

The change at Palace has demonstrated how badly wrong we have got our managerial appointments this season. For a former manager to come out of retirement and change the course of their whole season in two games, just shows how the delay in sacking Ralph and then the appointment of Jones condemned us to relegation - a path confirmed by asking Selles to save the shitshow of a season. Yes, the players have been dreadful, but so were the Palace players until someone with half a brain got them organised, playing in their correct positions and in a system that they all understand. The buck stops at board level - it's been a shocking performance by them.

I can't recall seeing a team so tactically astute at exposing weaknesses. The way their back four often just stood on the ball in their own half and waited to see what we would do before reacting, then in the blink of an eye with slick passing and movement they were in our box. I hate losing to crap teams via scrappy goals, but yesterday was a masterclass, and a clear indication of the difference in quality that we all knew before kick-off. Anyone who has just decided we are going down as a result of yesterday must have been on the frigging moon for the last three years

Man City are all hype. Haaland is bang average, he's no good in the air and too easily knocked off the ball, he's just not strong enough for the Premier League - he's like a slow Adam Armstrong without the football brain. As for De Bruyne, Grealish and Foden, they have no end product so it's easy to defend, you just need to back off them and let them run at you, they rarely create anything. Comfortable home win, hopefully the nurses will let me watch it.

Weird how some people miss the point on nearly every single occasion.

News Police? We could do with some proper police first. I don't think anyone objects to news. It's when advertorial outlets like GB News or Fox dress up PR as news, when in reality they're just pumping out carefully-crafted messaging approved by their financial backers, aimed at the easily-led, and it certainly seems to attract them. Sadly for GB News the numbers aren't there, perhaps the UK isn't quite thick enough for them yet, but if you look on social media, it's getting there.

That Twitter thread was interesting with actual detail and facts, rather than Suella's distorted electioneering shit. There is clearly a specific problem within the problem, perhaps complicated by the likes of Yaxley-Lennon who works to a very narrow agenda and is sharply selective about which cases he wants to highlight - we need facts rather than thinly-disguised campaigning. For anyone to ignore sexual abuse because they were worried about being called racist is insane, but then again politics is a post-truth arena where lies go unchallenged daily, the Met looks like the biggest criminal gang in London and blatant corruption in government is now just an accepted perk. The Home Secretary is talking big but doing very little, mainly because she is so far out of her depth - maybe less of the campaigning and the lying, and more of the actual governing might be nice, addressing all sexual abuse, by whoever.

Lee Barnard?

I feel sorry for Nathan, he thinks he's on his way to the Premier League... Unless of course his loan was an act of genius - send him and Smallbone out there early so they're up to pace as first team starters next season...

It's all to play for, the gap is only three points....says no one sensible who has ever seen a shit team locked at the bottom of a table before. Where the fuck are goals coming from, especially when you can't defend? #stilldoomed

We are so bad I'm not sure where to start. So I'll pretend I'm a centre back defending a set piece - I just won't fucking bother.

Is it today that Cameron jumps out and shouts gotcha!? Boris will then bumble out with thumbs-up and a big cheeky grin, followed by some laughing Russians and Rwandans, Cummings in comedy dark glasses with a white cane, and all those madcap MPs who have been telling us we are so much better off - all delivering in deadpan for comic effect! Grayling nearly gave it away with his I have no ships joke, Rees-Mogg too with his impression of a bespectacled slave-trader - and Raab doing his comedy surprise on discovering that Dover was a port, he's a card! But fair play to them all, what a stunt, from the bus right through to 'oven-ready' and all those crazy press statements about bonkers trade deals that are clearly worth nothing - even the fishing villages, the Mail, the Express, and the farmers were in on it - bloody hilarious! 🤣👍

Sounds like King Charles didn't get the Brexit memo, he's peddling some box of frogs nonesense about working with other countries in a constructive way that might improve our tarnished image around the world... I don't pay my taxes to hear mad remoaner-snowflake-traitor-wokery shit, he needs to keep his opinions to himself and only talk about King stuff. 😡

Maybe they should just identify as a seriously troubled individual who as a result of the gun laws has been able to commit the most chilling and heartless of crimes.

She's clearly in need of some type of intervention and support with addiction and mental health.

They are a step behind, we lead the world in that sort of thing.

It's his victims I feel sorry for, the ones who have loyally defended him, explained that every lie was true, made excuses for every corrupt step, some even believe that he's playing a blinder to this day. Those victims need sympathy at this time, not ridicule - they were conned by Boris, they deserve our support.

She did a shocking job. It's insane that there appears to be a higher ratio of sex offenders within the Met than there is in the general population.

Brilliant save! No, it was straight at him. Brilliant goal! No, it was a half-decent shot that deflected off the defender - there was no brilliance involved, brilliance is beating five players and chipping the keeper or curling the ball two metres and in off a post. Let's ration the use of brilliant and save it for the real thing.

Stop fucking around with the ball all sideways and backwards on the halfway line, get some movement going, get the ball in and have some frigging shots. Let's at least go down with a fight and not a whimper.

Part of the PR campaign for any party riddled with corruption is to promote the lazy idea that all politicians are the same. The facts suggest that at this moment the government is World Cup-winning on corruption while Labour are League One.